A CASTING NET — from amphi-ballō, to throw around: the circular hand-net, weighted at its rim, that a single fisherman flings over a shoal in shallow water and hauls in by a cord. ⚠ Matthew uses it once, of Simon and Andrew (4:18), and then switches to the ordinary word diktya, 'nets', for James and John (4:20-21), who are in a BOAT with their FATHER, mending tackle (Mark adds their hired men). The two words quietly sketch two rungs of the same trade: two men wading with a hand-net, and a family business with a hull and staff. Most versions flatten both to 'nets'; this translation keeps 'a net' for the one thrown and 'the nets' for the gear left behind. → first discussed at Matt 4:18